Letters
Thomas Cranmer1531–1556
The surviving letters of Thomas Cranmer, archbishop of Canterbury. Those of May and June 1533 are his own account of the court at Dunstable where he declared Henry VIII’s first marriage void.
The Parker Society’s volume prints Thomas Cranmer’s letters in modernised spelling. Letter 14, to Nicholas Hawkyns, his successor as ambassador to the emperor, was written in June 1533 and describes in order the sentence given at Dunstable and the coronation of Anne Boleyn.
The letters are first-hand and close in time to what they report. They give Cranmer’s side: in the letter to Hawkyns he states the grounds of his judgment and says nothing of the appeal that Queen Katherine had lodged at Rome beyond her refusal to accept him as judge.
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- 1534, firm date